Benjamin Lay,: anti-racist, vegan and ahead of his time centuries and he was the first radical abolitionist .

He was a hunchbacked prophet with dwarfism who competed against the greatest injustice of his time: slavery .

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, slavery was completely normal in large parts of the world. That someone else could be your property was part of life. It had always been, since the beginning of historiography. That was the world in which British Quaker Benjamin Lay woke up every day. But he didn't think it was normal. For him, all creatures were co-creatures. That's how he started a years-long campaign to wake up his fellow believers.

Benjamin Lay - The Recluse Who Fought Slavery

Benjamin Lay was born on 26 January 1682 in Copford, a village in Essex. After working as a farmer's hand, shepherd and glove maker for some time, he decided to go out to sea at the age of twenty-first. Lay was a striking appearance. It was no larger than 120 meters, which he was classified as a dwarf. In addition, he literally weighed under a bulge, had a relatively large head and small spindle legs. Although from fairly simple, Lay was freely read. He also read many books during his trips at sea.

Quakers
The Religious Society of Friends, better known as quakers, aged Dutch quakers, forms a group of undogmatic believers, which finds its roots in the Christian tradition. The life and the surrendered statements of Jesus are an important source of inspiration.

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